Ken Paul Rosenthal - Crooked Beauty

<body> <img src="images/KenPaulRosenthal-Flyer.jpg" width="800" height="586" border="0" alt="Ken Paul Rosenthal - Crooked Beauty" title="Ken Paul Rosenthal - Crooked Beauty"> <br clear="all"> <h4> directors lounge monthly screenings </h4> <h3>crooked beauty<br> films by<br> ken paul rosenthal</h3> <p>Lichtblick-Kino Kastanienallee 77 10435 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg</p> <p>Ken Paul Rosenthal, filmmaker from San Francisco will present his films at Lichtblick, Berlin</p> <p>Crooked Beauty (2010, 30 minutes) This internationally acclaimed poetic documentary chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara's transformative journey from psych ward inpatient to pioneering mental health advocacy. It is an intimate portrait of her intense personal quest to live with courage and dignity, and a powerful critique of standard psychiatric treatments. Poignant testimonials connect the fissures and fault lines of human nature to the unstable topography and mercurial weather patterns of the San Francisco Bay Area.</p> <p>In Light, In! (2013, 12 minutes) A haunting, visual essay about the awkward and angry junctures where our culture struggles to manage its emotional distress. Images recycled from 1950's-era educational films are accompanied by original compositions by world-renowned cellist, Zoe Keating.</p> <p>Director Bio Ken Paul Rosenthal is a cinema artist and mental health advocate whose current work explores the geography of madness through the regenerative power of nature, urban landscapes, home movies, and archival footage from social hygiene films. His films are visually sensual, emotionally intelligent works of art that also function as tools for personal and societal transformation. His films, Crooked Beauty and In Light, In! have collectively won eighteen awards, screened in sixty film festivals, and been presented in person at dozens of peer support networks, universities, mental health symposium and community events worldwide.</p> <p><b>Artist Links</b><br> <a href="http://www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.com/" target="_blank" title="Mental Health Trilogy">http://www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.com/</a><br> <a href="http://www.kenpaulrosenthal.com" target="_blank" title="Ken Paul Rosenthal">http://www.kenpaulrosenthal.com</a></p> <b>Press Links:</b><br> <a href="http://www.lichtblick-kino.org/" target="_blank" title="Lichtblick Kino">Lichtblick-Kino - http://www.lichtblick-kino.org/</a><br> Directors Lounge - <a href="http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com" target="_blank" title="Directors Lounge Magazin">http://directorslounge.net</a><br> </p> </body>